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sionnach commented on the word horrifying website
the druly dreadful pompous words website
Wherein "Dan's" definition of pompous appears to be "I haven't come across it while reading my manga comics".
Particularly benighted examples of his apparent lack of any cognitive function whatsoever are his rationale for listing amygdala and seppuku. Or you may be amused by Dan's complete inability to understand nuance. This is a person who believes that a myrmidon is the same as a lackey, that tendentious is a synonym for biased, someone who does not understand the difference in meaning between offensive and invidious, doesn't know what synecdoche, prelapsarian, or saturnine mean.
Many folks with Dan's middle-school level vocabulary might try to do womething to augment it (you know, like read a book or two). Instead, the ignorant slagass macaroon goes on the internet and attempts to make a virtue of his ignorance by mocking those who know more than he does.
Gaaah.
June 29, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word horrifying website
That website is nearly intolerable.
June 29, 2008
asativum commented on the word horrifying website
Yes, well, clearly he's one of these types who want the world to use the nice, simple one- or two-syllable words he's comfortable with -- in other words, the meaner* sort of copy editor.
(Note I don't refer, naturally, to the words with which he's comfortable, because that presumably qualifies as a pompous-ass sentence structure, also known as good grammar).
Add: I can't but notice that he lurves the word epigones.
* Not cruel. I'm using this in its pompous-ass sense. Look it up, you fly-bitten varlet.
June 29, 2008